• DocumentCode
    449110
  • Title

    All-optical SOA-based packet detection for packet-rate synchronization

  • Author

    Bakopoulos, P. ; Tsiokos, D. ; Apostolopoulos, D. ; Petrantonakis, D. ; Kehayas, E. ; Avramopoulos, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Photonics Commun. Res. Lab., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Greece
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    411
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a simple all-optical technique to detect the beginning of a packet for packet-rate synchronization. It employs a packet clock recovery unit and a SOA and it requires no special data encoding to operate.
  • Keywords
    optical communication equipment; optical switches; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; synchronisation; all-optical SOA; optical packet switching; packet clock recovery; packet detection; packet-rate synchronization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576306